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PRESTON PRINCIPAL LEAVING I I Preston principal Ken Perkins eats dinner at the Preston Dining Hall with his wife, Margaret Perkins, and Preston residents. The Perkins’ three-year term is over in May 2002. photo by josh skidmore END OF AN ERA Preston principal will step down at the end of next semester BY SEAN WALLER Till-: (1AMKC00K I Ken Perkins will step down from his position as principal of Preston College in May 2002. Perkins has been the principal of Preston for three years. To fill his position, a search committee offive Preston students and five faculty associates has been formed to go through the nominations and de cide who will best replace Perkins. The search committee, chaired by professor emeritus Hal French, will start reviewing nominations Nov. 2 and will continue until they have found a new principal. The provost will appoint the new principal and be responsible for renewing his or her contract. The position is expected to be • filled in summer of2002 by a USC " Columbia faculty member. Perkins was originally given a three-year contract, which was completed this past semester, and was invited to stay on an extra A committee will begin efforts to find a new principal for Preston, a residence hall on Greene Street, special to the gamecock. year. “This gave us the chance to follow one group [of students] all the way through,” said Perkins, whose wife, Margaret, lives with him in Preston. The couple plans to take a year offbefore returning to teaching Ken Perkins, who teaches history, wants to put more time into his unfinished book on the history of Tunisia. Don Greiner, associate provost and dean of undergraduate affairs, said in a letter that Ken and Mar garet Perkins have done a “splen did job in creating an academic residential environment” in Pre ston. “All of us in the university are in their debt,” he wrote. Preston “won’t be the same without them,” said Sean Bar nette, a linguistics graduate stu dent. This is Barnette’s sixth year living at Preston, where he is a res ident tutor and part of the search committee. Barnette thinks the po sition of principal needs to be changed every so often to change the environment in Preston a lit tle. Perkins expects some nominees to be faculty associates. Preston fac ulty associates are university pro fessors that are involved with Pre ston and attend one dinner a week in the Preston dining hall. Faculty associates already understand how Preston works. There are now about 40 faculty associates. The search committee will con sider certain qualities in applicants, such as a professor’s tenure, a schol arly record of distinction, a com mitment to excellence in under graduate education and adminis trative or organizational skills. The pr incipal’s duties include acting as the chief academic ad ministrator, living in special ♦ PRESTON, SEE PAGE 5 USC researcher to study in Atlantic Research experience This research exploration in the Atlantic won't be Bernhard’s first: ♦ Chief scientist on eight cruises. ♦ Co-chief scientist once each on Research Vessel Trygve Braarud and RV Polar Duke (Antarctic Peninsula)._ ♦ Participating scientist on 12 cruises off Central and Southern California, North Carolina, Gulf of Mexico, Baja California and Venezuela. ♦ About 23 months field work in the Antartic, mostly in McMurdo Sound (1984-1993). pears to contain enough methane to provide 30 times the nation’s annual gas consumption. Most creatures can't live in the ♦ OCEAN, SEE PAGE 2 •fc Theaters to donate proceeds Columbia theaters to take part in national effort for disaster relief BY MARY HARTNEY THE GAMECOCK If you want to help disaster re lief efforts after this past week’s terrorist attacks, you can do some thing as simple as going to see a movie on Tuesday. More than 270 movie theater companies with more than 27,500 screens across the country, in cluding in Columbia, will donate all of Tuesday’s proceeds to aid disaster relief efforts. The National Association of Theatre Owners announced that movie theaters nationwide will split every dollar of proceeds from concessions and ticket sales be tween the American Red Cross and the United Way’s Sept. 11 Fund. “We’ve had a strong number of calls from theater operators around the country asking, ‘How can we do something to help?”’ said John Fithian, president of the theater association, “Now we have the vast majority of screens in the country participating.” Movie returns for a typical Tuesday in September are esti mated at $5 million. Several Columbia theaters will participate in Victim’s Benefit Day at the Movies. Regal Cinemas 7 at Richland Mall is part of Regal Cinemas’ national chain, which is listed on the association’s Web site as a participant. Kristi Brady, as sistant manager at Regal 7, con firmed that the Columbia theater will donate its proceeds to the funds. A Consolidated Theatres branch, Columbiana Place Stadi um Cinemas on Bower Parkway will donate Tuesday’s proceeds as ♦ FOR COLUMBIA MOVIE TIMES, SEE PAGE 8. well and has prepared itself for the . benefit. “We’re glad to be doing this,” said James Cathcart. a Columbiana manager. “We’ve made some banners and jars for donations. It’s important that we’re all banding together at this time,” he said of movie the aters. “While the show must go on for all of us, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims,” said Peter Brown, chairman and CEO of AMC Entertainment Inc., which has pledged its returns from Tues day’s shows at its 2,772 screens. There are about 36,000 movie screens nationwide, and the the ater association estimates that about 80 percent will participate. If some larger studios are un willing to donate their proceeds, some theater owners plan to cover the difference out of their own pockets. Studio fees, which are paid by the theaters to rent the movies, are typically 50 per cent to 70 percent of a ticket nrice. In Columbia, Carmike Wynnsong 10 also confirmed its participation in Tuesday's bene fit. Carmike is listed as a partici pant in the program. Other Co lumbia theaters couldn’t be reached for comment, but sever al, including Dutch Square Cine ma 14, a General Cinemas theater, fall under national chains that are listed as participants. For a list of participating the ater companies, visit the associa tion’s Web site at www.natoon line.org. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. U.S. promises to prove bin Laden’s guilt BY NANCY BENAC ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - A solemn President Bush returned the American flag to full staff Sun day as the United States promised to lay out evidence making Osama bin Laden’s guilt in the terrorist attacks “very ob vious to the world.” The admin istration scoffed at Taliban claims he can’t be found. Secretary of State Colin Pow ell said the government would “put before the world, the Amer ican people, a persuasive case that ... it is al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, who has been responsible.” Administration officials and congressional leaders turned their appearances on Sunday’s TV talk shows into a two pronged effort to show the gov ernment’s resolve to choke off the terrorists and to encourage Americans to return to a more normal routine — crucial to get ting the recession-bent economy moving again. As the U.S. military got ready to strike, Defense Secretary Don ald H. Rumsfeld suggested that brute force might not be the best way to get at bin Laden. “Is it likely that an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile is go ing to find a person?” Rumsfeld asked reporters. “No, it’s not likely; that isn’t how this is go ing to happen.” , Rather, he said, “This is go ing to happen over a sustained period of time because of a broadly based effort where bank accounts are frozen, where pieces of intelligence are pro vided and where countries de cide that they want to change their politics.” Nonetheless, U.S. forces around the world were being repositioned. A Defense Depart ment team arrived in Pakistan to discuss military cooperation ♦ ATTACKS, SEE PAGE 2 President George W. Bush boards Marine One en route to Camp David, Friday afternoon, Sept. 21, 2001. photo by CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT CAMPUS ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON - A USC re searcher leaves this week on a * journey that will go more than a mile below the Atlantic Ocean, where future generations might find a source of power. Joan Bernhard will board the submersible Alvin vessel and plunge 1.3 miles below the ocean to study the Blake Ridge, which runs offshore from North Caroli na to Florida. Blake Ridge, almost 200 miles offshore from Charleston, has gas hydrate deposits where methane gas is trapped in ice fields. Gas hydrates are expected to provide a source of fuel in the fu ture, though economical ways to mine the gas haven’t been found, said Bernhard, an environmental ^ health researcher at the universi ty’s school of public health. One small area of the ridge ap users PAST Sept. 27,1980 The Gamecock football team, led by running back George Rogers, defeated Michigan, 17-14 in Ann Arbor in a performance that helped Rogers win the Heisman. WEATHER Today Tomorrow T-storms, Sunny, 81/61 76/49 INSIDE TODAY'S ISSUE A look at USC’s < Hot hair sizzles at new star players Township Auditorium Andrew Pinnock and Corey Annua) Hair Warz competition Jenkins find themselves in showcases local barbers and the spotlight. ♦ PAGE 10 stylists. ♦ PAGE 7 ONLINE POLL Miss America What did you think of the changes in the Miss America pageant? www.dailygamecock.com. Results are published on Fridays. »